Bose-Einstein statistics
noun plural but singular or plural in construction
variants or less commonly Bose statistics
: quantum-mechanical statistics according to which subatomic particles of a given class (such as photons and pi-mesons) have a quantum-mechanical symmetry that in cases of thermal equilibrium tends to cause an accumulation of many particles of the same kind in each of the possible low-energy quantum-mechanical states
called also Einstein-Bose statistics
compare fermi-dirac statistics
Word History
Etymology
after Satyendra Nath Bose, †1974 Indian physicist and Albert Einstein †1955 American physicist born in Germany